Natural Building

DECEMBER 24, 2019

When Kate Simonen, a professor who leads the Carbon Leadership Forum at the University of Washington, was a young architect experimenting with alternative approaches to conventional concrete. Katie MacDonald finds new uses for structural bamboo; she holds a panel of cross-laminated bamboo. He was game to try it in the foundation.

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Materials Design Concrete Accounting 52

Revit Beginners

JUNE 24, 2010

Question: So what do I do with highly complex and custom families that will likely change from week to week? So you either need to totally rebuild the family with the new functionality or just build a different family. Post a Comment. Newer Post. Older Post. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). David Duarte.

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Revit Beginners

JANUARY 11, 2010

Some New Bloggers on the Block. Steve Swensen is REVIT GUY Oliver is the author of Revit In Motion and you can find more interesting reading at revitflow I look forward to reading your posts guys. Labels: Bloggers , News. Post a Comment. Newer Post. Older Post. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).

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Construction Marketing

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

Examples of project plans might include the plan for a new website development, or a new sales training program. Strategic marketing plans are most often used by large brands or corporations, or when a new marketing regime or executive team takes over. Inquiries/sales leads/new customers. New products. New markets.

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Plans Budgeting Budget Construction 121

Revit Beginners

AUGUST 18, 2009

Brandon Pike has started a new blog called BIMtionary. His posts include tiers of BIM Implementation and a Revit Implementation Checklist. I look forward to his future posts. Labels: Bloggers , News , Practice. Post a Comment. Newer Post. Older Post. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).

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Revit OpEd

AUGUST 18, 2012

I read a post at AUGI the other day which originated with a post in July (2012). This image is the overview of what parameters are desired: Length, Depth, Fillet Radius and Angle. In the thread at AUGI the member that started it all replied that he figured out how to solve it after reading a post at BIM & BEAM.

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Revit OpEd

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

The essence of the warning is that something has changed in a way that Revit cant transfer the dimension reference to the new object. The tricky part is figuring out what that "something" is. No comments: Post a Comment. Newer Post. Older Post. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Serendipity.]. at 8:00 AM.

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Revit OpEd

AUGUST 27, 2012

Cant Alter Create New Local Selection. Said another way, the "Create New Local" option is disabled (grayd out). My post focused on the network relationship between local and central files. Daryl wrote about this occurring because of different software versions and Luke echoed his post later. Post a Comment.

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Revit Beginners

APRIL 16, 2009

No comments: Post a Comment. Newer Post. Older Post. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. Revit Forums & News. AUGI Revit Forum. RevitCity Forum. What Revit Wants. Revit 2010: New Coordinates Icons. Revit 2010: New Synchonize with Central.

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Revit OpEd

MARCH 30, 2012

If you are familiar with Matchlines and their related View Reference concept then you already have a sense of what this can do. Labels: News , Revit 2013 , Tips , View Reference. Finally, we can use this for riser diagrams and 3-d view callouts.seems so simple, wonder what took so long? Post a Comment. Newer Post.

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Revit OpEd

APRIL 24, 2012

RTC is running a competition to award a free pass to this new focused event, just have to put fingers to your keyboard and send a quick email to be eligible, read on if you are curious. What is VisDay? What aspect of VisDay are you most interested in? Winning comments will be posted on the blog site along with the winners name.

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Revit Beginners

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

Read what some of the industry experts have to say about BIM in the relatively new Journal of Building Information Modeling. Labels: News , Practice. No comments: Post a Comment. Newer Post. Older Post. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. Revit Forums & News.

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Revit Beginners

APRIL 16, 2009

Revit 2010: New Spot Slopes. and you might notice that Revit has a new slope annotation that works in plan and elevation view. No comments: Post a Comment. Newer Post. Older Post. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. Revit Forums & News. AUGI Revit Forum.

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Revit Beginners

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

What is Radar? You just linked a developed Revit model into a new project file and you cant seem to find it. Go to a floor plan view and add four new elevations looking in all directions. Highlight these new elevations in your project browser and go to element properties. No comments: Post a Comment. Newer Post.

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Revit Beginners

AUGUST 20, 2009

By that I mean, start with most family categories turned off in your new views visibility/graphics and gradually add the categories that you want to see. Extra Tip: If you want future new views to be additive by default, create a view template. Post a Comment. Newer Post. Older Post. View my complete profile.

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Revit OpEd

AUGUST 26, 2012

Doing this work via Autodesk Labs has allowed them to quickly test out new ideas as well as respond to user requests. The new Beta 1 is file-format compatible with Revit 2013 and also contains all the features from previous versions of Project Vasari. Labels: News , Update , Vasari. Labels: News , Update , Vasari.

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Revit Beginners

APRIL 17, 2009

Revit 2010: New Synchonize with Central. You might notice a few things about the new Save To Central features. What does this mean? Based on what our computer technitions are telling me saving to the desktop uses resources that will then be unavailable to applications. Post a Comment. Newer Post. Older Post.

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Revit OpEd

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

So whats the difference? A reload with "choice two" ends up creating some confusion, replacing the correct values with the new higher value. No comments: Post a Comment. Newer Post. Older Post. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Summary Posts: Worksets / Worksharing (Updated 9/19/12). at 11:00 PM.

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Revit Autodesk Conference Architecture 63

Revit OpEd

SEPTEMBER 9, 2012

The abstracts requested, at this time, are ONLY for the conference in Auckland, New Zealand this year, May 16-18, 2013. Considering attending RTC in 2013, then check out this video (00:01:44) to see what RTC is all about. Labels: Abstracts , News , RTC , Update. No comments: Post a Comment. Newer Post. Older Post.

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Revit Conference Autodesk Site 63

Revit OpEd

MAY 16, 2012

Heres what it looks like with a right-click in Revit 2013. I'm a little concerned w/ the new 2013 view template feature as it takes away the flexibility of independently controlling the VG per view regardles of the View Template assigned to it. Post a Comment. Newer Post. Older Post. Wednesday, May 16, 2012.

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DebunkTheBIM

DECEMBER 1, 2011

I believe that hands-on manipulating of project information by all project participants is the key to achieving any meaningful improvement of the AEC industry operating within the post-gambling-era. ratio of post ‘popularity’: about 3 to 1 for the Marquee compared to the second in place. Newer Post. Older Post.

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ArchiCAD BIM AutoCAD Claims 48

Revit Beginners

APRIL 8, 2009

There is a lot of controversy surrounding the new User Interface. The "Consistency" group: Learning the new ribbon will make learning other Autodesk products easier because they all have a consistent user interface. So the question is not DO we learn the new ribbon but, WHEN do we learn it? Post a Comment. Newer Post.

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Revit OpEd

MAY 3, 2012

For people experimenting with these new concepts and feature. Read Andys recent post about experimenting with them. There seem to be other things to be careful about this new tool, to make it work. I was not part of the Beta part of this, so this tool is all new for me. Post a Comment. Newer Post.

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Revit Autodesk Conference Architecture 56

Revit OpEd

AUGUST 1, 2012

When you do something that causes Revit to take ownership of a workset first, in order to do what you want, like deleting a view, Revit clears out its Undo "stack". Post a Comment. Newer Post. Older Post. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Summary Posts: Worksets / Worksharing (Updated 9/19/12). Revit OpEd.

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Revit Beginners

JULY 31, 2009

If you place a model component in a view that is set to the New Construction phase (under View Properties), that component automatically gets placed in the New Construction phase. No comments: Post a Comment. Newer Post. Older Post. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile.

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Revit CAD BIM nemetschek AllPlan 40

Revit OpEd

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Autodesk has announced a new version of Revit that they are calling LT. A number of posts and tweets have run down the list of things that it doesnt have. Then again it isnt uncommon to hear people working in the market LT is focused on saying something like, "BIM doesnt matter to what we do." Labels: New Products , Revit.

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Revit OpEd

APRIL 24, 2012

Ive seen a post at AUGI now and received a couple emails disparaging the new feature, "Double Click a Family to Edit Family". This one may fall into the "Careful what you ask for." Post a Comment. Newer Post. Older Post. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Workset Posts Summary. Cool right?

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Revit OpEd

MAY 1, 2012

I created a video to describe what happens when Revit contours dont quite match up with the underlying cad file contours that were used to generate a toposurface. This is what the triangulation looks like before adding an extra point to help Revit draw the contour more accurately. Post a Comment. Newer Post. Older Post.

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Revit CAD Autodesk Site 53

Revit Beginners

JULY 23, 2010

What do I mean by demons? like the change is some new data for the model. Thanks for warning me about what I should do if this happens! Post a Comment. Post a Comment. Newer Post. Older Post. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. Revit Forums & News.

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Revit OpEd

JULY 25, 2012

Martin prepared a video to help explain what can cause this. No comments: Post a Comment. Newer Post. Older Post. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Summary Posts: Worksets / Worksharing (Updated 9/19/12). New Revit Family eBook. I was member #9 at the Revit forums on Zoogdesign (no longer exists).

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Revit Schedule Autodesk Architecture 53

Revit Beginners

JULY 29, 2009

Now change the setting to what you see below. This is what youll see. Just isolate the REMARKS parameter from the Sorting/Grouping settings and exchange the old value for the new value. I posted a thread on the Revit MEP Whishes forum related to this topic. From what I can tell Revit already has this capability.

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Revit OpEd

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

If you use Revit MEP and laser scan data then hopefully youve heard of ClearEdge3D and the new EdgeWise for Revit MEP? What happens then?" No comments: Post a Comment. Newer Post. Older Post. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Summary Posts: Worksets / Worksharing (Updated 9/19/12). at 6:49 PM.

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Revit OpEd

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

These days it is more deliberate because they have to un-check the Create New Local option to do so. Next morning staff just goes to work wondering what the elves do at night. If even that would create a new local file, we'd have less problems. Post a Comment. Newer Post. Older Post. at 9:33 AM.

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Revit Beginners

APRIL 5, 2007

Excitech posted a look at the new Revit Architecture 2008. No comments: Post a Comment. Newer Post. Older Post. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. Revit Forums & News. AUGI Revit Forum. RevitCity Forum. What Revit Wants. David Duarte.

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Revit Beginners

APRIL 20, 2009

Revit 2010: New Coordinates Icons. The new coordinate systems and icons have a lot of even the best users confused. Go to a floor plan view and hit the light bulb to reveal the two new coordinate system icons (the survey point triangle and the project base point circle). Post a Comment. Newer Post. Older Post.

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Revit Beginners

AUGUST 3, 2010

Anyone who has developed a custom remodel residential project can tell you its not as simple, clean, or intuitive as a custom new construction residential project. So what do you do with partial demos? You could create a new phase between Existing and New Construction called "Existing To Remain." David Duarte. at 4:12 PM.

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Remodeling Revit BIM CAD 49

Revit OpEd

APRIL 25, 2012

It would be a lot easier for new users that way. Same is true for sheets except that we can also delete a sheet from the browser "schedule" That's the inconsistency that confused users recently and prompted the post. Then, what happens to the views you have on the sheets? Post a Comment. Newer Post.

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